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Ukraine's opposition leader, Yulia Tymoshenko, has described as a "bluff" the prosecution of former president Leonid Kuchma over the 2000 murder of an investigative journalist. Ukrainian prosecutors on Tuesday accused Kuchma of giving orders to former interior minister Yuri Kravchenko to eliminate journalist Georgiy Gongadze. Read more.